Goonhub
01-26-2020, 10:44 AM
Currently, dead crewmembers are cloned (or borged) and their corpse is then fed into the reclaimer. This is efficient, but it has a number of downsides.
1. It's tough (though not impossible) to run out of biomass for the cloner if bodies are being fed in at a 1:1 rate with clones produced.
2. It's really easy to hide a murder. (drag the victim to cloning, throw them in the scanner, say "Oh gee, braindead" and throw them in the reclaimer). I'm not sure how often this is done, but I've gotten away with it plenty.
3. Feeding all corpses into the reclaimer deprecates pretty much all other corpse management tools. lBody bags, the morgue, the crematorium, the funeral mass driver, you name it. It can be slim pickings for an unlucky Wraith.
If the Reclaimer no longer accepted bones, then butchered meat and viscerite would be the primary fuel for cloning. This would encourage interaction between departments (relying on mining for viscerite and QM/Chef for meat) and revive a lot of those deprecated game mechanics. And you could still put humans in the reclaimer in a pinch, you'd just have to "prepare" them first.
1. It's tough (though not impossible) to run out of biomass for the cloner if bodies are being fed in at a 1:1 rate with clones produced.
2. It's really easy to hide a murder. (drag the victim to cloning, throw them in the scanner, say "Oh gee, braindead" and throw them in the reclaimer). I'm not sure how often this is done, but I've gotten away with it plenty.
3. Feeding all corpses into the reclaimer deprecates pretty much all other corpse management tools. lBody bags, the morgue, the crematorium, the funeral mass driver, you name it. It can be slim pickings for an unlucky Wraith.
If the Reclaimer no longer accepted bones, then butchered meat and viscerite would be the primary fuel for cloning. This would encourage interaction between departments (relying on mining for viscerite and QM/Chef for meat) and revive a lot of those deprecated game mechanics. And you could still put humans in the reclaimer in a pinch, you'd just have to "prepare" them first.